A CONTEXTUAL THEORY OF RETAIL CENTRAL PLACES ON A LINEAR MARKET*
提出一个零售中心地的新理论模型，在线性市场假设下，用情境需求理论模拟消费者行为，分析家庭位置与中心地均衡位置的空间关系，对研究零售区位和消费者选择的学者有参考价值。
ABSTRACT. This paper presents an initial version of a new theory of central places for retailing activities. Confined to a linear market and using the Contextual Theory of Demand to model consumer behavior, the model extends the economic theory of central places (Eaton and Lipsey, 1982). In its present form, the model specifies four parameters that control the spatial relationship between the locations of households and the equilibrium locations of central places: expenditure shares in consumption, transportation cost functions, storage costs by commodity, and capital costs of retailers. The locational equilibria of the model are optima when all costs are considered.